THE DATING OF EARLY HUMAN REMAINS. 49
nishes us with valuable contributary evidence of their date.
In the case of human remains which come within the ordinary
limits of variation of the modern race-types of Europe, this
assistance must be applied with much greater caution.
THE COMBE CAPELLE TYPE.
A well-authenticated instance of Late Palaeolithic interment
has been recorded from the rock-shelter of Combe Capelle
(Dordogne).16 This skeleton was found at a depth of seven
feet; it had been interred in a Mousterian deposit from a "floor"
of the next succeeding, or Aurignacian, stage. Aurignacian
implements had been placed with the body for use in the "Happy
Hunting Grounds," and it was covered by an accumulation of
three separate relic beds, interstratified with sterile layers. The
continuity of these overlying beds was unbroken and un-
disturbed, so that the interment must have been made before
the middle and later part of the Aurignacian period, to which
the upper relic beds belong.
This race was extremely long-headed, the brow ridges were
somewhat pronounced; it was short in stature and with the
leg-bones disproportionately long. Professor Keith suggests
that this race may ultimately prove to have more negroid
affinities than have yet been recognised.
It is usually considered intermediate between the Neanderthal
and Cro-Magnon types, but Professor Sollas classes it with the
latter group.
Brunn, The skull from Brunn in Moravia, discovered in
1891, is strikingly similar to that of Combe Capelle, and is
probably of about the same date, judging from the human
figurine carved in Mammoth ivory which was found associated
with it.17 This was an example of a red ochre interment.
Another skull from Brunn, found in 1885, is also of similar
form, but the direct evidences of its dating are less satisfactory.
THE CRO-MAGNON RACE.
A number of skeletons of fine tall men, with large brains,
are included under this name, but for many years there was a
tendency to discredit their Palaeolithic date. The race is gene-
rally considered to have Mongoloid affinities, particularly in
the form of the face.
16 A. Keith, Ancient Types, etc., p. 51.
17 A. Keith. Ancient Types, etc., p. 47.
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